Politics

OYEBAMIJI MANIFESTO: OSUN APC’s 800-Members Campaign Council Are Jesters, Will Not Win One Local Government in Osun State

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress and its campaign council has released what it calls a “manifesto.” In reality, it is an embarrassing, word-for-word reproduction of Gboyega Oyetola’s failed campaign document. This makes one thing very clear, the APC offers no new ideas, no fresh direction, and no credible alternative for the people of Osun State.

It is inconceivable that an 800-man committee could produce a document so completely devoid of originality, substance, and vision. A manifesto should be a contract with the people, innovative, clear, and rooted in today’s realities. What the APC delivered is the opposite. Just recycled promises the public already rejected, repackaged with no thought, no reflection, and no relevance.

The hurried expansion of their campaign council further exposes their desperation. Having realized that their initial structure lacked coordination, capacity, and the stamina for a serious electoral contest, they resorted to inflating their ranks, mistaking sheer numbers for strength and noise for strategy.

An 800-member council is not a demonstration of political depth; it is evidence of internal confusion. Amassing individuals in search of political relevance only underscores the absence of leadership and direction. A serious opposition presents ideas, clarity, and a compelling agenda. What the APC has presented is a crowd without purpose and a manifesto without substance.

Let this be stated clearly, firmly, and without qualification, the Osun APC will not win a single local government in Osun State. Not one. The people have not forgotten the hardship, stagnation, and governance failures that defined the APC’s 12 years in power, a period in which their candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, played an active role. No amount of recycled manifestos, inflated councils, or empty rhetoric can erase that history.

While the APC is occupied with recycling failed promises and staging political theatre, Governor Ademola Adeleke continues to deliver measurable results across infrastructure, healthcare, workers’ welfare, and economic empowerment. That is the clear distinction between governance and illusion.

The APC claims it will run an issue-based campaign. That claim rings hollow. If they are serious, they must begin by answering the most basic question their recycled manifesto has failed to address, what is new?

Until that question is answered, their campaign stands exposed for what it truly is, hollow, and entirely disconnected from the realities and aspirations of the people of Osun State.